Zelda's Fashion Bookstore
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The Art of Makeup

 

 


Shopping & Caring

The Ultimate Guide to Shopping and Caring for Clothing: Everything You Need to Know from Blue Jeans to Ball Gowns

 

 

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Fashion Victim: Our Love-Hate... 


 Dressing the Man

...in Dressing the Man: Mastering the Art of Permanent Fashion, the author takes readers on a tour of men's clothing that he says will never go out of style. How to mix patterns, what to look for when trying on clothes in the fitting room, what kind of jacket to wear with a straight-point collar, the history of the monk-strap shoe, the correct position for a bow tie and what "business casual" really means. Well illustrated with photographs of dapper dans from Humphrey Bogart to the Duke of Windsor and drawings depicting neckwear, suit jackets, coat sleeves and trouser creases, this is a superb reference for any man.


 Fashion Visionary Interviews

Serious fashionistas will simply devour Visionaries, Susannah Frankel's collection of in-depth interviews with 23 of the world's top couturiers-and the only book of its kind. From Azzedine Alaïa to Zandra Rhodes, Ghost to Jean-Paul Gaultier, Vivienne Westwood to Junya Watanabe, plus, of course, the names behind such universally recognized monograms as CdG, D&G, and YSL, each ultra-chic subject openly deconstructs his or her own designs.


 

 

50 Years of Fashion  

From haute couture to hot pants, from glamour to grunge, the past fifty years have witnessed some startling revolutions in fashion. This lively survey of postwar fashion not only describes the great designers and their creations but also places trends in clothing within their social and cultural contexts.


Yohji Yamamoto:
Talking to Myself

He, more than most designers, is the poet of black, the director of fashion's film noir.

—Suzy Menkes,
the International Herald Tribune
 

Radical Fashion

Three major trends currently dominate international fashion: the invasion of Paris couture houses by hip British designers; the creation of highly conceptual collections by austere European minimalists; and the near-architectural construction of contemporary Japanese clothes.


 

 

Retro Chic

The Vintage Bible...
A Guide to Fabulous Vintage and Designer Resale Shopping in North America and Online.


Dress Like A Million

...On Considerably Less:
A Trend-Proof Guide to Real Fashion

 

 

 

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